I know you’re wondering why the blog is not updated despite having two volunteers. Just found out that they are as slack as I am :-) To write an article is much more difficult than most of you think. Until you start writing yourself, it’s hard to realise why it must be such a big deal. While a comment can even be a random observation, an article has to be more wholesome, should be more complete and relevant. It does take time unless you’re terribly pissed off which can make you write an article even in 20 minutes.

Moreover, there could a million reasons for not updating the blog – might have had a hard day’s work, might have to take my wife and kid out, might have to go to my in-laws, might have to spend some personal time, the internet may not have been working, etc. A good question would be how did I manage to update the blog so regularly before and what has changed now? Well I was doing it at the cost of something – most importantly sleep, personal time, family time etc. You see the difference because I want to balance my time across a few things – of which the blog is one. So I fully understand if Karma or Tanmay is not able to post as frequently as they thought. Easy on them, easy on us. Let’s move on.

Let’s start with a quick coverage of the mid-week champions league games. Milan vs Man Utd was a lovely game of football. That was a match Milan must have closed within 30 minutes. Man Utd shouldn’t even have had a sniff of victory in that match. Sadly, a magical rebound from Scholes upset Milan as they conceded the dreaded away goal. Rooney continued his fine form but the ease with which he scored his brace must be a sad sight for any Milan fan. Milan still had it in them to draw or even win in the final 15 minutes but couldn’t finish when mattered.

East Timor, Tonga, Micronesia, Palau, Sao Tome and Prinicipe, Marshall Islands, Kiribati – what’s common among these countries? Their GDP of last year is lower than what Real Madrid spent on transfers last summer. If you see the backdrop of this season’s finals being in Santiago Bernabeu and Real Madrid’s desperation to win the champions league at home, their away defeat to Lyon is big news. Real Madrid have more ammunition that they need to turn things around but they’re under pressure and in these situations, a stroke of bad luck can knock you out. And that would be a tragedy for them!

I must say Arsenal are the most entertaining team in Europe. I mean, come on, tell me which other team ‘entertains’ you so much, makes you laugh so much and bring tears of joy in your eyes? Arsenal continued to play unintelligent football as they were beaten by Porto. Everytime, in knockout rounds, they get the easiest of draws and still make heavy weather of it. They could have got Inter, Milan, Barcelona, Real Madrid and who did they get – Porto. As Fibreglass found out only this week, they were making schoolboy errors. I’ve been seeing them do this for seasons now.

What did we say about Tom Hennings Ovrebo? What did we say? We said he is either incompetent or corrupt or both. We proved it with photo and video evidence. What were we told? We were told not to find an excuse. The whole world saw that Chelsea were robbed of a place in the champions league finals. Hardly any sympathy for us because it was Barcelona who made it to the finals at our expense. We only got further punished with bans and suspensions. To say it in the style of Godfather’s classic opening scene – “Tom Hennings Ovrebo walked free . . that . . very . . day”. UEFA drafted him back in, in the same tournament where he screwed up, again in a knock out round and unsurprisingly he’s done that again. It’s impossible to get that decision wrong. Granted he wasn’t helped by the assistant referees but if he can’t this offside from where he was, the only excuse he could give is that he is blind.

Now, Fiorentina is not the same as Milan, Inter or Juventus. But what does the Italian FA do? They question UEFA. They challenge them. They put pressure on UEFA. They object and also make their objection loud and clear about standards of UEFA referees. They stand up for a club of their association. It is the president of the Italian FA that’s questioning the refereeing standards in UEFA champions league. When Chelsea were robbed last season, what did English FA do? Nothing. While Italian FA can stand up for Fiorentina, can’t the English FA do the same for Chelsea FC? Would they have done it if it was Liverpool or Man Utd? Sacking captains for sleeping around is all right but I hope they also learn how to protect the clubs that are members of its association.

Staying with the topic of sleeping around, Ancelotti and Ron Gourlay, the chief executive of Chelsea FC, have addressed the players about the importance of protecting the image of the club. In simple terms, they must have said ‘behave yourself’. A timely intervention I’d say. Sometimes, even the obvious will have to be spoken about. Not sure if JT was part of the meeting. Anyways, JT is back for this match after a short leave to fix up things at home. We would not have Lampard, Alex, Deco and Belletti for this match. Same’s the case with medium-timers Bosingwa, Essien and Ashley Cole. That means Terry and Carvalho as centre backs, Ivanovic as the right back and Zhirkov as the left back. Mikel would play probably alongside Ballack, Joe Cole and Matic (well, this part is just wishful thinking).

Anelka has been off colour since Drogba returned. I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence or there is some science behind. Anelka has been really poor to be honest but he’s trying really hard which is why I’d not go harsh on him. But on current form, if Carletto picks Sturridge instead of Anelka, I’d not be worried at all. Drogba is in top form and I’m rooting for him to beat Rooney for the golden boot.

Wolves away is by no means an easy game but that’s a game we must win. When you look at the fixtures for this weekend, you see Everton vs Man Utd, Arsenal vs Sunderland and Man City vs Liverpool. This could turn out to be a dream weekend for us with Everton, Sunderland and Liverpool winning (see how times have changed! In Rafa we trust!). Here’s hoping for a 2-0 win for Chelsea, and heavy defeats, destruction, relegation and bankruptcy for our rivals.